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As the world champion New York Giants fought to hold New England scoreless in the fourth quarter of Super Bold XLVI, another battle was raging off the field — Samsung’s string of anti-Apple commercials culminated with a 90-second TV advertisement that cost the South Korea-based vendor more than $10...

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If you've been wondering what Adobe had in the works after laying Flash Player for mobile to rest, the wait is over. The outfit has unveiled the codenamed Project Primetime, the "industry's first fully integrated video technology platform" that will offer television-esque viewing sessions across your web-enabled devices. This...

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So this is pretty fun. A University of California at Berkeley freshman named Derek Low uploaded a video to YouTube today of what he’s calling the “BRAD”, or the Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm. Apparently, Low set out three months ago to make “the most ridiculously automated dorm room in...

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Korea electronics giant Samsung has announced that the Samsung Galaxy S III, its much-anticipated new smartphone, has launched in 28 markets across Europe and the Middle East today, with plans to increase that number to 145 worldwide by July, according to Reuters. Today’s wide scale launch is the firm’s largest...

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Swiss designers have made a tremendous impact on the world of design and typography over the years, having pioneered the International Typographic Style in the 50′s, which emphasizes cleanliness, readability and objectivity. This style, also called the Swiss Style, features the likes of Helvetica and Akzidenz Grotesk, and has come to...

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Google Drive doesn't do anything exciting--at least at first. Here's a guide to the apps that make Drive worthwhile.Google Docs was turned into a general purpose cloud storage dropbox called Drive back in April. But in classic Google fashion, no one explained what you could do with your free 5GB of...

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Prism SkyLabs, a cloud-based service thats allow business owners to bring video feeds online, capture images from these feeds and share this data with consumers and the public, is announcing integration with Google+, YouTube and Picasa today. Here’s how Prism Skylabs works. Most stores and restaurants have surveillance videos running...

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Vodio, the social video viewing app for iPad which competes with ShowYou, Shelby.tv, a and others, is out with a major update this morning, which brings a number of new features, including a history section, “Watch Later” functionality, a dedicated channel for viewing mobile app videos and even App Store...

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Inspiration comes in many forms and can influence you in unexpected ways. I can trace my own interest in programming to Babbage’s Analytical Engine, which fascinated me on my childhood visits to the Science Museum in London. This idea that science and technology can inspire people is one that we...

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Bottlenose is a web-based smart social media dashboard that, in many ways, directly competes with Hootsuite and Tweetdeck. Bottlenose, however, puts a stronger emphasis on filtering your streams, both by implicitly learning about your interest and by giving you a sophisticated set of tools to create your own filters. Today,...

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Software maker Adobe has posted an interesting video on their Photoshop channel on YouTube. The clip showcases content-aware move, one of the new features in the upcoming Photoshop CS6 update. Similar to content-aware fill in Photoshop CS5 that replaces the missing pixels behind removed image elements, the new content-aware...

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The Boeing X-48C took its very first flight on Tuesday morning as part of a NASA project exploring what aircrafts could look like two decades from now. The unmanned craft — which was designed by Boeing and built by Cranfield Aerospace — took off from NASA's Dryden Flight Research...

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If you ever searched for something like “share designs with clients,” you’ll find this topic has been covered quite a lot. Sharing files with clients is still a task for designers, despite how technologically evolved our society becomes. For designers, there are countless options. You could email your work, but what...

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This evening, Apple has aired a new iPad TV advertisement that focuses on what the new iPad’s Retina display brings to life. The ad showcases iPad features such as emailing, reading via Newsstand, TV show watching, iPhoto gallery making, Numbers document editing, drawing via apps, iBooks 2 textbooks, reading,...

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Since Tumblr integrated with Open Graph last month, its referral traffic from Facebook has grown by more than 2.5x, according to Jeff Sherlock of Facebook’s Developer Blog. This statistic makes one thing clear: the social giant really does drives some serious traffic for nearly everyone that’s integrated with its Open Graph so far, even though these...

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Near field communication, the wireless technology that’s forever been poised to break out, may finally get the big push it needs. Code pulled from two iPhone prototypes suggest that upcoming iPhones will have an NFC controller connected to the power management unit, according to 9to5Mac. There is still a chance...

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Now that Microsoft is building and selling its own tablet, the Surface, most people think it's copying Apple. While that's an easy story line to follow, it actually looks like Microsoft is copying Google and its "Nexus" game plan. Every year Google works with one of its smartphone partners to...

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Judges Andy Sack, Rebecca Lovell and John Cook listen as PetHub CEO Tom Arnold pitches In the fast-moving and cutthroat world of startups, entrepreneurs need to be able to sell themselves in seconds. A good elevator pitch can mean all of the difference, helping entrepreneurs score cash, recruit top engineers...

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Booking reservations and buying tickets with friends can be a pain: finding the right events, exchanging myriad links and emails, coordinating schedules. "And then one person always gets stuck footing the bill for everyone else, and has to worry about collecting payments and cash from their friends afterward," says...

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QNX Software has just peeled the price-sticker off a new Jeep Wrangler reference vehicle that showcases its latest "CAR 2" application platform. The hope is to show how well the system can let car manufacturers build in-vehicle entertainment and infotainment with a custom look, and lets developers create apps...

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While Groupon’s problems continue to play out in a very public forum, the No. 2 daily deals provider is quietly gaining momentum. In the first quarter, LivingSocial’s revenues totaled $110 million, increasing 168 percent compared to the same period a year earlier. The Washington, D.C., company also recorded a profit...

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The Associated Press (AP) is well known for breaking news worldwide, and today it has released an updated version of its AP Mobile app for iOS with a brand new interface and even more news than before. The new app is a universal build which will work with all iOS...

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Samsung has just unveiled its latest effort to make buyers more at home with its cellphones. The first of its independent retail locations opens today in Vancouver, Canada, expanding on the store-within-a-store idea it explored in London. The Vancouver Sun got a preview of the new store, which showcases...

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Looking for a high-grade door lock? How about a satellite phone? Or maybe you've been craving a Wi-Fi pineapple? Whatever your gadget desires, chances are you can buy it in the vendor room at Defcon. [Read more]...

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Apple’s latest ad campaign, which showcases an in-store “genius” providing Mac support in real-world situations — to a fellow passenger on an airplane and to a neighbor at his apartment complex — is drawing criticism from tech types who don’t think they’re up to the standards of past Apple ad campaigns....

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Santa Monica-based startup Lifecrowd announced today that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding from Chicago-based VC firm Lightbank and several other investors for its social activity platform. The tool, which launched in public beta in March and was part of Los Angeles startup accelerator MuckerLab‘s first class, allows people to find...

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Google may be in the process of bringing its mobile operating system to desktop and notebook computers, according to a recent patent filing. The patent, which was discovered by Patently Apple, showcases desktop control features similar to Apple’s multitouch MacBook trackpad and Magic Trackpad. The current Android operating system has...